Who wants advice from Jessica Valenti on raising boys not to be misogynists?

Jessica Valenti has written six books on feminism, and in The New York Times Wednesday she argued for ways to keep young boys from growing up to be misogynists, claiming that “a generation of young, mostly white men are being radicalized into believing that their problems stem from women’s progress.”

My latest in the @nytimes: Until we grapple with how to stop misogynists themselves — starting with ensuring boys don’t grow up to be one — women will never be free. https://t.co/iVrIsgcqSk

"Whether it’s misogynist terrorism, the rash of young men feeling sexually entitled to women or the persistent stereotype of “real men” as powerful and violent, it’s never been clearer that American boys are in desperate need of intervention." https://t.co/PDlBWqm9HZ

Of course, she’s quick to denounce the work of “misogynist hucksters” like Canadian psychology professor Jordan Peterson, whom she notes refuses to call students by their preferred pronouns.

So her column is both a warning against people like Peterson and a call for feminists to set up a system to help shape boys into something other than patriarchal terrorists.

“Feminist ideas can help men,” she writes, “be it the rejection of expectations that men be strong and stoic or ending the silence around male victims of sexual violence. But boys also need the same kind of culture we created for girls.” Thanks to feminism, girls, for example, have everything from “social media campaigns to after-school equality clubs … and real-life spaces where girls can find alternatives to the sexist status quo.”

Until society finds out a way to keep young patriarchs from growing into misogynists, women can never truly be free, right?

I don't know what is going on in your neighborhood, but I was born free, have lived free and will continue to do so.

"women will never be free"? I don't know what alternative universe you live in, @JessicaValenti, but here in the US, as a female, I enjoy the same freedom as a male. Your imaginary chains are self inflicted. This victim mentality is becoming extremely tiresome.

As a woman I’m embarrassed & enraged at how feminists continually make women out to be defenseless victims. I rarely run into misogynists… when I do I kick their ass*s to the curb. I don’t play the victim card…. neither should you. Stop blaming men for your failures.

Nice choice of a pic for the article. The girls are happy and working and the boy is miserable af. Very appropriate for an article on the destruction of men from a young age. Your ultimate goal is to stop them from becoming men, not misogynists.

Awful. Conflating some nutbags with what it means to be a man is journalistic malfeasance. As such, the feminist solutions that flow from your conflation are wrong. You really need to get out and meet more men, instead of stereotyping men based on a few articles.

Wow, what a great idea! Let's stop offensive behavior before it even starts or before they're even capable of misogyny! We can start by assuming that every single male is a misogynist and then treating boys like that, while telling them there's something wrong with them! #Derp

Thank God I raised my four boys as boys. Kind & loving with chidren of their own. Gentlemen who treat their wives with respect & love. You don't have to tell the lie of different genders to teach your children to be respectful decent human beings.

I view myself as free and as equal as any man in this nation. Any limits on my life are due to my choices and NOT to my gender. Also, as the mother of boys…go pound sand. I’m sick of women like you making every human with a penis out the be the devil. They aren’t.

You’ve not been denied an education. You’ve not been subjected to genital mutilation, forced to cover everything but your face, or forced into marriage. You can go wherever with whom ever, and your equality is guaranteed by law. The only place you’re not free is in your own mind.

The main points of your article are fine, but your paragraphs on @jordanbpeterson completely mischaracterize his views. It’s sad because it delegitimizes all your other points—even if they’re good. This all reflects poorly on the Left and feminism 😕

You either:1: don’t understand @jordanbpeterson’s opinions AT ALL, and I would implore you to research him because one of his defining principles is the sovereignty of the individual. Or2: Are willfully misrepresenting him to create a fake boogeyman. I have a feeling it’s 2.